My almost 2 year old!!

This past weekend we had the pleasure of getting to play with my cousin Ronnie's little baby Andrew. They came in to Houston for the weekend and on saturday the 3 of us went over to visit with him. He was soooo sweet and cute and it was so fun getting to play with a little one! Jayda had fun with Andrew too and she kept wanting to "hold, hold!" him. It was so cute!

Me and Jayda with little Andrew.


Well Jayda isn't quite 2 yet, she is actually still 21 months old and will turn 22 months old on May 24th, but I wanted to go ahead and do a post about how little miss is doing since so many things have changed over the past few months. I really cannot believe that she is almost 2! Two years old sounds so old! I feel like she should still be a baby! It really is crazy how fast time flies. Everyone always says "they grow up so fast", but it doesn't really sink in until you have one of your own and then you realize, oh yeah, they really do grow up SO fast! Jayda is so fun at this age and we have been doing all kinds of fun stuff, adventures, trips and new things.

Around 20 months she started putting 2 words together. She also started picking up different sounds that she hadn't said before like "i", "e", "g", "k". Funny enough one of her first combination of words was "mama eyebrow". Not sure where that came from, really I have no idea! One day I was changing her and she looked up at me and pointed to my eyebrow and said it. I was so excited for her, which made her all excited so she kept saying it over and over. Then she moved on to "dada eyebrow". Some of the other words she liked to put together were "Jayda's car", "Jayda's house", "Dada's truck" etc. She now has been putting several words together and will copy what you say. The other day at dinner she even said a complete sentence on her own without any prompting. We were so happy for her we started clapping at the table and she knew she had really done something. Now that she can tell us what she wants or doesn't she isn't having as many temper tantrums, hallelujah!

She is such a ham and loves to get attention.

Jayda is miss In-de-pen-dent!! She has to do everything on her own and does not want help from mommy or daddy. Eventually after trying something for a while without success she may say "mama help". Her latest thing is putting on her own shoes. Often she'll put them on the wrong foot and I'll have to help her switch them around, it's pretty funny.

We have been able to start reasoning (some) with her. Like, "If you don't get in your car seat, you won't get to watch Nemo", or "If you don't put your hat on we can't go to the park". I guess this also could be called bribery, but whatever it is it is finally working! Before if you would tell her these things it wouldn't matter and she'd pay no attention. Now, she understands what we're saying and it helps us get things done around here, thank goodness!!

She still sleeps in her pack n play (whatever works right?), wears a size 5 diaper and 24 months - 2T clothes.

Potty training is still that...in training mode, we're working on it.

She LOVES the water! She loves to play in the water, swim in it, drink it, whatever it is, she can not get enough of water time. I'm so excited for this summer so that we can go to the pool all the time and then mommy can have lots of quiet time while missy takes lonnnnng naps, woo hoo!

Jayda loves the movie Finding Nemo. I have never seen her sit and watch an entire movie (or almost), but she does with Nemo. She absolutely loves it! I think her b-day party this year will be all Nemo!

She loves spending time with her daddy. On the weekends Jayda and daddy do everything together because she is SO excited to see him. It is so sweet and they have a lot of fun together. On the weekends she always wakes up and calls for "daddddyyy" over and over.

Jayda loves to play with the big kids. Whenever we go anywhere where there is kids she doesn't want to play with the kids her age, she wants to play with the big kids. She already thinks she's a big girl!

She has started saying the prayer at dinner ("God is good...) and can almost say it on her own! It is the cutest thing ever!!

She loves to play with stickers.

She is a sweethart and will always give you hugs and kisses and say "Wuv youuuu". What a sweet girl!

Jayda LOVES to be outside! She hates coming in when we've been outside.

She loves popsicles and ice cream and would probably eat them for every single meal if I let her. What can I say, she got her mama's sweet tooth!

She rides her big wheel all over the house ALL the time. Whenever she wakes up from her nap the first thing she says is "bike?" because she wants to know where it's at so she can go and climb on. She really thinks it's funny to run into mommy with it. We've really had to work on going "around mommy". Whew, she drives me crazy with that thing sometimes!

Jayda loves to hide under blankets. Just give her a blanket and she'll be entertained for hours. She gets underneath the sleeping bag, blanket, mommy's comforter etc. and then wants you to come and find her. She will do this forever if you keep playing the game! She always says "kak, kak, kak??" for "dark" whenever she wants to play this game, she's crazy!

I'm sure there's more, so I'll probably keep adding onto this list...

She loves to run......everywhere! Pretty much everywhere she goes she has to run to it. Like to put her shoes on, to the bath tub, at the park, to the table to eat, all over the house, outside on the sidewalk, to the car, and you get the point. This girl runs everywhere! So, you can imagine how fun that is for mommy when we're in a parking lot, in a store, restaraunt etc., fun times for sure!

She calls the dogs "ha-nina" for Harley and Nina.